Friedrich-August Schack

Friedrich-August Schack (27 March 1892-24 July 1968) was a General der Infanterie of the German Wehrmacht during World War II.

Biography
Friedrich-August Schack was born on 27 March 1892 in Schmiedeberg, Silesia, German Empire (present-day Kowary, Poland). He served in both the hussars and the infantry of the Imperial German Army during World War I, and he served in the Reichswehr during the Interwar period. In 1934, he became a Major and an instructor of military tactics at the Dresden War College, and he was then promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in 1937. He commanded a machine-gun battalion during the 1939 invasion of Poland, an infantry regiment during the Battle of France in 1940, and a divisional commander on the Eastern Front in 1943. On 15 December 1943, he became the commander of the German 272nd Infantry Division in Belgium, and he led the division during the Battle of Caen and the fighting for Normandy in northern France. On 4 September 1944, he took command of the LXXXI Armeekorps in Aachen, and he ended the war as commander of the XXXII Armeekorps on the Oder River near Stettin, Pomerania (Szeczin, northern Poland). He was imprisoned by the Allied Powers from 1945 to 1948, and he died in Goslar, West Germany in 1968.